mwt-mwt

Egyptian

Etymology

mwt (“mother”) +‎ mwt (“mother”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘mother of the mother’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːt muːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mut-mut

Noun

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(maternal or paternal) grandmother

Inflection

Declension of mwt-mwt (feminine)

singular	mwt-mwt
dual	mwtj-mwt
plural	mwwt-mwt

References

Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 160, 163

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